Stuart Hall

Stuart Henry McPhail Hall was a Jamaican-British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist who founded British Cultural Studies and pioneered theories of multiculturalism, race, and identity[2][8]. Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1932, he became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, directed the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, and taught at the Open University until 1997[1][3]. He died in London on February 10, 2014, leaving a lasting legacy in cultural studies and critical theory[2][8].